"The King's Deception" (Ballantine Books), by Steve Berry   Cotton Malone returns in a thriller that combines history and gunfire in Steve Berry's "The King's...

The new edition of the history of the general elections in Malta written by Michael J. Schiavone was released recently by Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza – PIN.   This is the fourth...

Quadron, "Avalanche" (Epic Records/Vested in Culture)   Coco O.'s soft and dreamy tone over the R&B-flavored beat on "Sea Salt" is enough to make you melt (summer...

"A Place at the Table: a Novel" (Touchstone), by Susan Rebecca White   There's a lot of tasty talk about food in "A Place at the Table," a novel whose main characters...

A Roman villa is being excavated by University of Malta archaeologists in the village of Żejtun. Uncovered in the 1960s, the Villa has given up some great secrets about Roman and Punic life. The villa...

Isabella Camilleri, a Maltese medical doctor living in the UK, has published three books in the Blake trilogy – The Blake Soul, The Blake Curse, and The Blake Mistake.   The Blake...

Queens of the Stone Age, ". Like Clockwork" (Matador)   Opening to the sound of breaking glass and riddled with lascivious intent throughout, Queens of the Stone Age's new...

Joss Whedon's bare-bones "Much Ado About Nothing" is the cinematic equivalent of Shakespeare in the parking lot — and proof, again, that it doesn't take much doing to bring...

Jeffery Deaver (Grand Central Publishing), "The Kill Room"   Part of the joy in watching an ace baseball pitcher throw a perfect game is that every toss is different and the batter...

LeAnn Rimes, "Spitfire" (Curb)   LeAnn Rimes has appeared in tabloid headlines more often than the record charts the last few years. But don't fault her music: Her last three...